Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A girl at Sunderland, England, while running to look at a funeral, fell down and a hair-pin ran into one of the apertures of her spine through which the nerves pass, causing inflammation of the spine and ultimately death. —Mr. Tom Appleton, of Boston, when he turned into a narrow street through which a powerful blast of wintry wind was pouring, remarked that he wished there was a shorn lamb tied at the head of that street, for he had heard that God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. —The Augusta (Me.) Journal of a recent date, contains this item: “ A woman on the poor farm in Belgrade recently came near poisoning all the inmates of the alms-house there. She came from Bristol, but had recently been living at Pittston. Her husband, who had left the alms-house, sent her a quantity of poison in a letter. This she managed to get prepared for the inmates of the house, and came near poisoning the whole lot” —A prominent lawyer and politician of Pine Bluff, Col. M’Gehee, after a short illness last week, died,! and his mourning family and friends in sorrow and grief saw his eyelids closed, as they supposed, forever. He was to be interred in a metallic case after the usual time. His funeral was about to take place on the second night of his supposed death. After near thirty hours the watchers over his supposed remains were surprised and horrified by seeing the glass casing of the coffin broken open ana the appearance of the corpse’s head thrust through the aperture. The Colonel wanted to know “what they were trying to do?” It is unnecessary to state’ that he was soon relieved from his uncomfortable situation, and at last accounts he was in a fair way of recovery, and worth many dead men— Pine Bluff (Ark.) Press. —The police at the foot of Hammond street, New York, recently rescued a horse from the water, concerning which there is a remarkable history. Nobody at first knew anything of the animal or its owner, but the next day a claimant appeared who stated that he was the owner, and that the horse had reached the city by swimming the entire distance from Fishkill —forty-three miles distant up the Hudson River. The owner had flightened the horse somehow and chased him to the river, where he boldly plunged in and started for the opposite shore. The man followed in a boat, when the horse turned his head down stream and kept on until the owner, tired out, returned to the shore. Then he sought to follow him in a wagon, and left it for the train, as he heard constantly of his horse swimming on. At length he gave up the chase, and came to this city to hear that the animal had been taken ashore by the police, as stated.— N. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune. —The Piute squaws, says the Gold Hill (Nev.) News, are a harmless set of creatures and never trouble anybody if let alone. They love their babies like other women, and nothing pleases them more than for a white man or woman.to stop and take kindly notice of the copper-col-ored little images. But don’t fool with a Piute mother. ~ This forenoon a butcher crossing the sidewalk to a wagon roughly thrust aside a squaw with a papoose on herback. The little one was hurt—at least it squalled. Quick as thought the squaw darted behind the butcher, seized his hair with both hands, and gave such a vicious tug that the fellow roared out in surprise and pain. Before.he could recover his presence of mind Mrs. Jim scuttled down the street as if life depended on her speed.